mixtus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mikstos. Perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪk.stʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmik.st̪us]

Participle

mixtus (feminine mixta, neuter mixtum); first/second-declension participle

1. mixed, having been mixed; blended, mingled, combined
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.145–146:

     [...] īnstauratque chorōs, mixtīque altāria circum
     Crētēsque Dryopēsque fremunt pictīque Agathyrsī; [...].

     [Apollo] renews the dance while, mingled ’round the altars, Cretans and Dryopes, and painted Agathyrsians chant; [...].

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.247–248:

     tunc ego rēgnābam, patiēns cum terrā deōrum
     esset, et hūmānīs nūmina mixta locīs

     then I was reigning, when the earth was fit for gods,
     and divinities mingled in the places of men

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mixtus	mixta	mixtum		mixtī	mixtae	mixta
genitive	mixtī	mixtae	mixtī		mixtōrum	mixtārum	mixtōrum
dative	mixtō	mixtae	mixtō		mixtīs
accusative	mixtum	mixtam	mixtum		mixtōs	mixtās	mixta
ablative	mixtō	mixtā	mixtō		mixtīs
vocative	mixte	mixta	mixtum		mixtī	mixtae	mixta

Derived terms

• immixtus
• mixtīcius
• mixtiō
• mixtum imperium
• mixtūra

Descendants

• → Catalan: mixt
• → English: mixt (partially)
• → French: mixte
• Galician: mesto, mestas; misto
• Italian: misto
• Portuguese: misto, mixto
• → Romanian: mixt
• Spanish: mesto, mesta, mixto

References

• “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mixtus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mixtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.